SIGNIFICANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does significant mean?
• SIGNIFICANT (adjective)
The adjective SIGNIFICANT has 4 senses:
1. important in effect or meaning
2. fairly large
3. too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation
4. rich in significance or implication
Familiarity information: SIGNIFICANT used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• SIGNIFICANT (adjective)
Meaning:
Important in effect or meaning
Synonyms:
significant; important
Context examples:
a significant change in tax laws / a significant change in the Constitution / a significant contribution / significant details / statistically significant
Similar:
portentous; prodigious (of momentous or ominous significance)
key; operative (effective; producing a desired effect)
probative; probatory (tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation)
noteworthy; remarkable (worthy of notice)
monumental (of outstanding significance)
large (fairly large or important in effect; influential)
fundamental; profound (far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something)
evidential; evidentiary (serving as or based on evidence)
earthshaking; world-shaking; world-shattering (sufficiently significant to affect the whole world)
epoch-making; epochal (highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era)
momentous (of very great significance)
Also:
meaningful (having a meaning or purpose)
important; of import (of great significance or value)
Attribute:
significance (the quality of being significant)
Antonym:
insignificant (not important or noteworthy)
Meaning:
Fairly large
Synonyms:
substantial; significant
Context example:
won by a substantial margin
Similar:
considerable (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree)
Meaning:
Too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation
Context examples:
the interaction effect is significant at the .01 level / no significant difference was found
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)
Antonym:
nonsignificant (attributable to chance)
Meaning:
Rich in significance or implication
Synonyms:
meaning; pregnant; significant
Context examples:
a meaning look / pregnant with meaning
Similar:
meaningful (having a meaning or purpose)
